Book description
In just four months in 2009, Sri Lanka's 26 year-old desperate
civil war came to a brutal and bloody end on a desolate stretch of
beach in the island's north east.
Tens of thousands of civilians were killed when the government
decimated the guerilla organisation, the Tamil Tigers.
Gordon Weiss witnessed the conflict at first hand as a UN
spokesman in Colombo. His devastating account unravels the
compelling history that led up to that final horrific episode,
peeling back the Sri Lankan government's cloak of silence to reveal
the truth of those tragic events.
Gordon Weiss was the United Nations Spokesman in Sri Lanka for two
years during the recent civil war. For two decades, he worked as a
journalist and for international organisations in numerous conflict and
natural disaster zones. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the
University of Sydney, Australia. Twitter @gordonkweiss / www.
gordonweissauthor. com
